The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume IV

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 provides essential information about various camps and detention facilities, detailing their establishment, administration, types of prisoners, labor performed, and living conditions. Each entry cites sources for further scholarly exploration. This work serves as a memorial, preserving the histories of locations where individuals suffered and perished. Volume IV focuses on a lesser-known aspect of the Nazi incarceration system: camps directly controlled by the German military, the Wehrmacht. It covers a range of facilities, including prisoner of war camps for enlisted men, officers, naval personnel, and airmen, as well as civilian internment and labor camps, work camps for Tunisian Jews, forced brothels, and prisons for Wehrmacht personnel. This volume not only uncovers numerous detention sites that have been largely overlooked but also contributes to dismantling the long-standing myth of the "clean Wehrmacht," which falsely claims that the German military was uninvolved in the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes.